Alsendo, a Polish expertise platform supporting transport course of administration, declares its acquisition of Italian transport platforms Spedire.com and SpedirePRO for €5.5 million.
This acquisition marks Alsendo’s first in Western Europe and a strategic step towards constructing a pan-European expertise chief in logistics and e-commerce – made potential by the strategic assist of Abris Capital Companions, which has been the corporate’s majority shareholder since 2020.
“At Alsendo, our ambition is to develop into Europe’s main supply administration and transport platform. That’s why we’re steadily constructing our place within the logistics expertise market.
“With the expertise gained within the aggressive markets of Central and Jap Europe, we’re able to scale our mannequin in Western Europe. Getting into the Italian market confirms the effectiveness of this technique, and our partnership with Spedire is only the start of our pan-European journey,” says Magdalena Magnuszewska, CEO of Alsendo.
Warsaw-based Alsendo focuses on delivering complete options for optimising supply and post-sales processes for all enterprise buyer segments. The group encompasses a number of technology-based transport companies (Apaczka, Sendit, Zaslat, Ecolet, Siusk24, Cargobooking) and presents DMS (Supply Administration System) options for supply administration tailor-made to main e-commerce gamers, led by the Innoship platform.
Alsendo’s logistics providing consists of options tailor-made to market platforms, integration with over 80 e-commerce programs, a single API integration with a number of courier firms, worldwide companies underneath the Alsendo Worldwide model, and Alsendo Enterprise Professional – an SaaS platform supporting logistics, advertising and marketing, and customer support for e-commerce.
Rovereto-based Spedire.com and SpedirePRO are modern logistics options created by Esite, which has been working available in the market for over 10 years and handles greater than 400,000 shipments per 12 months. The platforms collaborate with main carriers corresponding to UPS, FedEx, InPost, and Poste Italiane, providing a complete vary of companies – from pick-up and supply level operations to cash-on-delivery and triangulated shipments.
Esite – developed in partnership with Triboo S.p.a – is considered one of Italy’s main e-commerce and digital companies teams and brings not solely native experience to the group, but additionally a technological spine.
“The Italian market remains to be within the early phases of APM growth, however its scale and the big variety of worldwide e-retailers (e.g. within the trend and sweetness industries) create perfect circumstances for the additional growth of our digital options, corresponding to Innoship and BusinessPro, together with our cross-border companies. Spedire matches completely into our growth imaginative and prescient,” provides Magnuszewska.
The acquisition is aligned with Alsendo’s buy-and-build technique, aimed toward consolidating the fragmented transport options market and increasing cross-border companies in Europe. It strengthens Alsendo’s place as a dynamic Polish tech firms working within the logistics sector.
Based on Alsendo, the Italian parcel market – with an annual quantity of about 1.1 billion, much like Poland – stays extremely fragmented, notably within the transport platform phase. It’s dominated by native gamers, with Poste Italiane holding the main market share, and the logistics infrastructure remains to be growing, additionally pushed by InPost’s launch in Italy in November 2024.
The share of PUDO factors and parcel lockers stays considerably decrease than in CEE. Moreover, Italy reveals a comparatively excessive penetration of worldwide shipments – round 13.5% – indicating stable demand for cross-border companies, that are a core pillar of Alsendo’s technology-driven growth.
“Joining Alsendo Group is a pure step in our evolution. In recent times, we’ve targeted on technological innovation and broadening our vary of companies. Now, by turning into half of a bigger group with worldwide experience, we’re in a stronger place to scale our enterprise, strengthen our presence within the Italian market, and supply even better worth to our prospects – particularly enterprise purchasers who depend on superior, dependable transport options,” provides Luca Lorenzini, CEO and founding father of Spedire.com e SpedirePRO.
